trysail
Catch Me Who Can
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It almost goes without saying, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of you wouldn't be here were it not for Andy Grove and Intel.
What an amazing life.
He was nearly killed at age 4 when he contracted scarlet fever, and it gave him a life-long hearing disability. As a Jew growing up in Budapest, he survived the Holocaust because his mother took on a false identity and was saved by friends (his father was murdered by the Nazis). After the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, he escaped Communist Hungary by crawling through mud to Austria.
He emigrated to the United States in 1956. He spoke very little English when he arrived. By 1960, Grove had received a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from the City College of New York and in 1963, he received his Ph.D from the University of California, at Berkeley. Grove participated in the founding of Intel and became its president in 1979 and chief executive in 1987.
